Welcome you to this virtual conversation. Europe holds and free the future of the the line was unintentional, but we did it. Todays event is sponsored by our global europe around under the direction of our newly minted director, dan hamilton, who will take over managing this program for me in a little while. Its also sponsored by our kennon institute in partnership with the u. S. Helsinki commission. Dannon joins the Wilson Center after holding a variety of patients in the u. S. Department of state, including notably, assistant secretary for european affair responsible for nato, the osce and transatlantic Security Issues of the nordic, baltic, and balkan affairs. He also retains an affiliation with and taught for a while at johns hopkins. Our conversation today marks an important milestone. 30 years ago today, the charter of paris for the new europe was signed by 34 european and north american countries symbolizing an end to the 40year division of europe into two hostile camps. It form
We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
Vaccines wont solve all the problems with the virus. Goes your headlines my colleague nick yarnell be here in just under an hours time with a full and fresh look at news this is our intention national by taking the. Time after time saying were going underground one week since the alleged u. K. You armed israeli assassination of irans top physics professor coming up on the show what was the role of mossad in the assassination of Iranian Nuclear scientist muslim factors a death we ask the organizations former director Efraim Halevy who also served as the head of Israels National Security council and we go to be a rainy inside to investigate the potential scale of the iranian retaliation and president elect biden is already destabilizing the middle east before even taking office only some more coming up in todays going on the ground 1st despite New York Times anonymous senior u. S. Official sources claiming israel is behind the assassination of Iranian Nuclear scientist most of the factor
What would your role or what has been your role during this pandemic . Its been very involved in this pandemic and how the frontline response so the organization i work for works closely with them supporting response and on researching issues for them and also on communicating to other stakeholders like the centers for Disease Control in congress and the administration. What are your thoughts on rent headlines about the spike . In covid cases . Wall street journal describ it as everywhere. It is very concerning and it is something that we knew there would be the likelihood can happen as we move into the fall months but you kw, as everyone knows we are seen levels of infecon weve not seen before in this country and when you look at whatappened on the east coast back in t spring and how quickly we got to the situations where we almost went over t capacity of the hospitals and now is across the nation and its concerning. For that reason, we cant let ourselves get to a poi where you dont h
Jane todays event is sponsored by our tpwhrobal Europe Program under the direction of our newly minted director, dan hamilton, who will take overing moring this program for me in a little while. Its also sponsored by our kennon institute in partnership with the u. S. Helsinki ommission. Dan jones the Wilson Center after holding positions in the u. S. Department of state, including notably, assistant secretary for european affair responseable for nato, the osce and transatlantic security issue os they have in ordericbaltic and balkan affairs. He also retains an affiliation and taught for a while at johns hopkins. Our conversation today marks an important milestone. 30 years ago today, the charter of paris for the new europe was signed by 34 european and north american country, symbolizing an end to the 40year division of europe into two possible camps. It formally signaled the end of the cold war and set the osce, or the csce, the conference on security and cooperation in europe, on the